Several
big-shot players have started ruling the cloud space. Here is how
they differentiate their services from each other.
Cloud
computing relies on a unique client-server mechanism, where one
provides the necessary resources from multiple internet-connected
devices. Developers get access to hosted applications easily and with
cloud services, one can create web applications without any
interference. Here are some of the biggest players in the industry:
Google
App Engine
In
the field of web development, Google and Amazon are in charge.
Google's App Engine has repeatedly helped several developers to build
and host web apps on their own servers for quick processing,
development and deployment. Google administrates its cloud services
with an easy hand and the developers do not have to be aware all the
time about the hardware upgrades, patches or backups that Google is
affecting to its servers. Now Google manages to handle incessant
traffic and huge processing loads. Hence the developers need not
worry about how Google will be able to bear the workload through
cloud computing. Google App Engine is scalable and flexible in terms
of resources, performance and users. Working with the App Engine is
free for all developers. With the free cloud service, Google provides
500 MB of storage at no cost along with a whopping 5 million
page-views.
Amazon
Web Services
Amazon
Web Services (AWS) has been providing cloud computing services
for developers from many years now. AWS includes Amazon CloudFront
which is mostly used for content delivery, Amazon Fulfillment Service
which is specially used for ecommerce operations, and Amazon
CloudWatch which is used for monitoring cloud service. Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3) is mostly used for storage while the Amazon
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is perfect for those interested in
networking. AWS is free for signing up and you obtain an Access
Identifier, for making web service requests.
Codeita
Here
is a new and unique cloud-based development platform which is named
Codeita. The cloud computing platform allows developers to perform
nearly all operations from a cloud perspective, right from design, to
the app publishing process. The web technologies which are running in
the cloud are the same ones that control the web today. LAMP
technologies are used for getting things running. The platform is
free to get started and offers flexible cloud storage and in-browser
FTP publishing. Developers are provided with 100 MB of space to start
out. Users get access to web-based FTP which allows editing and
publishing of files.
Here
are some different ways, cloud computing and virtualization benefits
the users:
1.Cloud
Computing Provides Numerous Testing and Staging Servers
Development
teams are usually restricted to having one physical server per
development and even for staging and production. However but with
cloud instances, once can scale the resources up and down and work on
unlimited number of servers at a time. One does not have to rely on
physical servers for carrying on the work.
2.
Agile Development Transforms into Parallel Activity
One
might experience delays in especially in getting server instances to
work for them but one can provision servers for agile development
teams quickly with the help of cloud services.
3.
It Boosts Innovation and Experimentation
By
being able to create instances as and when needed, development teams
can spawn multiple instances quickly for coding purposes and then
testing the code out. One does not need to wait for the next build
since there are an unlimited number of servers which can be made
available. Builds are faster and less painful with agile development
thus encouraging developers to experiment every time.